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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger accused the CIA and corporate actors of editing the online encyclopedia to serve state and institutional interests during an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung published on 7 August.
“I believe Wikipedia is already compromised,” Sanger said.
He added that the platform was identified early as a propaganda instrument, and that its anonymity rule made it easy to use as such.
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“The powerful are very interested in Wikipedia,” he said, describing the site’s pseudonyms as a mask, saying that the platform treats the positions of institutions such as the World Economic Forum and the World Bank as established fact.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger
He’s an asshole and a tool. He is also permanently banned from Wikipedia after many second chances.
If they gave a shit about truth they’d make strict requirements for where does the information presented in the website come from. Anything without a known name to pin it to, has to be explicitly labeled as hearsay. Only to be allowed in the “Unverified facts” section.
None of this half-assed good for nothing wishy washy disclaimer in some corner of the website.
That is how it works! “Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.” If you don’t like something in an article, and there’s no source or an unreliable source, you can edit it to remove those claims and no one will push back on this.
This guy is the least reliable source on the state of wikipedia ever.
He’s mad that they don’t platform hardcore rightwing shit or entertain debates about religious fanaticism. He’s saying compromised by the lefty woke CIA to push their agenda.
On Gaza, Sanger said Wikipedia’s coverage is “clearly very one-sided,” in favor of Palestinians, and backed founder Jimmy Wales’s intervention on the “Gaza genocide” article, where Wales argued the introduction should contain more of the Israeli perspective.
Dude is delusional. Don’t take his views as evidence.
He also got mad in 2020 about Wikipedia being too one-sided on covid
He’s mad that they don’t platform hardcore rightwing shit or entertain debates about religious fanaticism. He’s saying compromised by the lefty woke CIA to push their agenda.
I was wondering why stuff like that would show up in a chud hangout like the Berliner Zeitung, but yeah, that clears it up.
This guy has been doing this for years and it’s a sign of the average intelligence of this hellsite that this shit is upvoted.
It seems like most people haven’t even read the article, let alone googled the subject or investigated the publication. Clown world shit.
Weird thing is, he has definitely come up in the feed before (maybe in All though). It was a very different framing then.
Well known ally of the Palestinian people, the *checks notes* CIA
the introduction should contain more of the Israeli perspective.
The Israeli perspective: “But have you considered that Arabs aren’t human?”
seconding this. larry is a known rightoid crank
Lmao this dude is all over the place. The CIA is editing wikipedia but then making it sound like wikipedia’s progressive bias on palestine comes from that? Nonsense lmao. Correct about the cia though
wikipedia’s progressive bias on palestine
wtf lol
Objectively true compared to the average westerner, it’s had a leading edge. That’s the general meaning of “progressive” in the west, essentially “slightly left of the political spectrum”.
Correct, but still a dumb asshole
Stopped clock right for once
Dude is saying that Wiki has a “progressive” bias, like in the Gaza genocide. Fuck him too.
You can be right for the wrong reasons sometimes
In fact, this sort of thing is very common, since having some fringe lunatic be the whistleblower on something like this is a great way to make it seem less credible in the eyes of the general public.
Almost makes me think Larry is himself, a CIA plant to make everyone who disagrees with NATOpedia a chud nutjob
A variation on the limited hangout.
wiKKKipedCIA
You don’t say, it was always compromised.
He added that the platform was identified early as a propaganda instrument, and that its anonymity rule made it easy to use as such.
We have breaking reports coming in from the Aquaticists that the water is quite wet right now.
No? Yes! Oh!
